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A distinctly Chicago tale of marital infidelity made by Central Cinematographers, a Chicago cine-club made up of “advanced amateurs” who met once a...

An instructional film about the filmmaking concept of "continuity" made by amateur filmmaker Margaret Conneely. Conneely would present the film wit...

Amateur film covering Tar’s girl’s basketball intramural game of 1954. The girls receive trophies, the teams are introduced in a opening ceremony,...

Amateur film covering Tar’s boy’s basketball intramural game. The teams are introduced in a opening ceremony, a marching band plays and cheerleade...

Amateur silent film of a boy scout troop making a fiberglass canoe step by step from a mold, from start to finish. Boy scouts all help in each pa...

Margaret (Margaret Conneely) and Henry Usher (Jerry Giles) — retired school teachers with a penchant for mystery novels — inherit the Chicago home ...

Unedited travelogue film featuring Paris, France. Footage includes the Arc de Triomphe and other stunning architecture as well as busy streets.

A slapstick domestic comedy about a middle-aged couple trying to live more economically.

Unedited scenes from Mary and Joe Chicago Style, a retelling of the Nativity as re-imagined by Chicago's Central Cinematographers amateur ...

Footage of costumed children participating in various Halloween games such as bobbing for apples and a paper-bag pinata. This footage was used for ...

A silent documentary that follows a group from Central Cinematographers as they view, discuss and shoot films. The process of filmmking becomes tra...

First version of Conneely’s amateur film “The 45,” a mischievous and entertaining film about a woman willing to employ any means to send away the m...

Amateur film about a man (Robert Olssohn) who finds tokens for a telescope at the top of Chicago's Prudential Building. He mostly uses them to peep...

Amateur film made by Margaret Conneely.

An amateur Christmas film made by Chicago amateur filmmaker Margaret Conneely, who frames stop-motion animation and trick photography with live act...